dormancy

Etymology

noun

  1. The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.
    [N]ow the big Thanksgiving dinner which they had eaten was beginning to work upon them a spell of dormancy. 1902, Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 2, in Behind the Line

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